The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 47

When Scheih Ibrahim returned, a thick stick in his hand, the Caliph was seated on his throne, and nothing remained of the fisherman but his clothes in the middle of the room.

Who acts: Scheih, thick stick · What happens: return, seat, remain · To what, where: thick stick, Caliph, throne

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scheih, thick stick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 returned	advmod
2	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
3	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Scheih	flat
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stick	det
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seated	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Caliph	det
14	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 seated	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seated	aux:pass
16	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stick	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 throne	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 throne	nmod:poss
19	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seated	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nothing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nothing	cc
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 stick	conj
23	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 nothing	acl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 fisherman	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fisherman	det
26	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remained	obl
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 clothes	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 clothes	nmod:poss
29	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 fisherman	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 middle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 middle	det
32	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clothes	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 room	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 room	det
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 middle	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	Scheih	a thick stick in fisherman's hand			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seat	past · passive	a thick stick in fisherman's hand not said here	the Caliph	hand's throne		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
3	remain	participle				of the fisherman but hand's clothes in the middle of the room	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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